Red & Green Auroras | International Space Station

Red & Green Auroras | International Space Station

Former Expedition 71/72 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Don Pettit: "Sit back and enjoy this smooth ISS pass between green and red auroras, and the stars of deep space."

"This video was taken by my crewmate Butch Wilmore on Expedition 72. His extended stay gave us lots of time to collaborate on photography!"

On August 6, 2025, it was announced that after 25 years at NASA, flying in four types of spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut, and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA.

Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-barry-butch-wilmore-retires/

NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth on April 19, 2025, concluding a seven-month science mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Pettit spent 220 days in space, earning him a total of 590 days in space over the course of his four spaceflights. He orbited the Earth 3,520 times, traveling 93.3 million miles in low-Earth orbit.

Follow Expedition 73:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos)

JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Zubritskiy, Oleg Platonov

NASA Flight Engineers: Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/D. Pettit/B. Wilmore
Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: Aug. 8, 2025

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